Synthstrom Audible Deluge, a hardware groovebox with an open-source engine, previously New Zealand exclusive, now goes retail.
The Deluge is one of the most comprehensive and creative hardware grooveboxes of recent years. Since the firmware was made available to the community (open-source), the Deluge has grown even more over the months. The hardware, however, remains the business of the developers.
This was a clever move because it allowed them to focus more on building the devices. This step also now has a positive impact on sales. Previously, the Deluge was only available exclusively through the developers in New Zealand. But that has changed today.
Synthstrom Audible Deluge Retail
The developers have today announced that the Deluge groovebox now goes retail and is now available internationally from retailers. So, you can also buy the Deluge from a music store in your country.
The Deluge is or will be available at Musicstore (Germany), Turnlab (Belgium), Juno (UK), Perfect Circuit (US), and more. A complete retail list that is constantly being expanded can be found here.
Feature Summary
- groovebox with Synthesizer, sampler, and sequencer
- various synth engines (subtractive VA, wavetable, FM) with up to 64 voices for the synth parts
- multimode filter, envelopes, LFOs, mod matrix, delay, reverb, arpeggiator…
- sampler with up to 90 voices for the sample parts with multi-sample support, resampling, time-stretching, and more
- arranger mode
- sequencer with piano roll and TR-grid modes
- Euclidean pattern mode
- polymetric sequencing
- randomizer
- disk streaming
- internal loudspeakers
- 4x gate outputs, 2x CV outputs, MIDI in/out,
- stereo output, headphone socket, line input, mic input…
- …
This is an important step for the Deluge, in my opinion. Not only does this retail move bring the Synthstrom Audible Deluge into the focus of many more people, but it also dispels the fear many people have had about buying a device in New Zealand. Great news!
Synthstrom Audible Deluge is available now for 1449€.
More information here: Synthrom Audible
Deluge will be available at my partner.
Very interesting and unique machine. Unique because of it’s free open source firmware. A long awaited move to find resellers in Europe.
Deluge is a brilliant peace of equipment and after the open firmware update an all in one dream.
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See? It aint that hard to allow, let alone encourage, open source in a piece of kit. This has skyrocketed to the top of the devices I’ll be looking forward to way ahead of those from Akai and Elektron.
I had the screenless model but I sold it. I could never get over the lack of screen to edit samples, when I saw the screen introduced I was hoping they would allow for sample editing to be done on the screen but it doesn’t look like anyone cares for that. Glad to see the community going strong though, its a great piece of equipment for those willing to invest the time.
It’s high in the feature backlog and something we (the community firmware devs) are actively interested in developing. I even talked about it at the dev panel at Superbooth. The problem is dev time/priorities and all the background stuff that has to happen to even support something like it (for example, the original OLED code could only really draw text and a few specific sprites, no arbitrary pixels or vector graphics).
I always wanted to try one out but not for 1500,- Even at half the price I would still be hesitated pulling the trigger.
Maybe it they do an MK2 I might.